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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk on a Tuesday - We Know Who is Throwing Down in 26.1 · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  We got the Open.
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  We got the Super Bowl.
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  We got the Olympics.
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  So much to talk about next.
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  what's going on everybody welcome to
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  sunday sunday sunday night crossfit talk
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  on a tuesday welcome to our irregularly
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  scheduled show
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  Yeah, we've been all over, all over.
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  This is the last week for that.
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  We're back to Sundays after this.
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  Football's over.
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  We don't have to compete with a Super
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  Bowl or anything like that anymore.
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  We'll get back to our regularly scheduled
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  time moving forward because the season
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  really kicks off in like a week and
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  a half.
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  It's coming up quick, man.
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  And then we'll get into a regular groove
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  of like stuff happening,
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  stuff to talk about,
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  things going on in the space.
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  But until then,
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  It's weird because I'm so used to doing
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  a lunch show and tonight we're kind of
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  doing a dinner show.
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  So kind of surrounded around meals, man.
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  Um,
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  you guys do anything over the last
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  weekend?
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  I know the Olympics, the super bowl,
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  anything big in your world.
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  I didn't, I mean,
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  I watched the super bowl,
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  but we didn't do anything crazy for it.
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  Like we just sat at home and watched
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  it.
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  The three of us, uh, Aaron cooked.
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  Um, yeah, not much.
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  I haven't done anything special.
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  Um, I watched the Superbowl,
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  lots of Olympics.
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  And then on Saturday night,
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  I got to play in a hockey game
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  that was like old, older NHL legends and,
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  uh, cops and firefighters.
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  So they put me on the legends team,
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  which was really cool.
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  Um,
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  Yeah, I played.
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  I mean,
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  Doug Gilmore is there from the Leafs.
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  A few like older Leafs players.
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  This one guy that went to the Olympics
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  for Canada in twenty eighteen.
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  Wolski.
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  Rafi Torres,
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  who has one of the most longest
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  suspensions in the NHL.
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  I think one of the times he had
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  like forty two games.
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  So like that's how I remember him just
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  for like this one dirty hit.
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  He would just run over people.
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  So cool to play with some of those
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  players.
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  There was a Canadian Olympian,
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  Laurie Dupree.
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  So it was cool.
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  It was really, really fun.
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  Ken says,
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  can you get my Sunday schedule back on
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  track, please?
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  This is really messing with my feng shui.
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  We just said,
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  we are so sorry for all being all
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  over the place.
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  But going forward, it is back to Sundays.
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  Sunday at eight o'clock,
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  going forward for the foreseeable future.
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  As we'll have the Open to talk about,
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  we'll move right into quarterfinals.
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  And then the semifinal season kicks off
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  pretty quickly after that.
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  So...
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  Um,
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  and then we got water Palooza mixed in
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  there.
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  Uh,
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  so plenty to talk about in the coming
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  weeks and months.
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  Um, uh,
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  Ken is literally standing in front of his
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  Gilmore sign game.
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  You stick.
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  That's a weird coincidence out of the
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  stuff I have.
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  That is weird.
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  So this is, uh,
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  let me find the picture.
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  Just me and him before the game.
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  Nice.
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  Well, yeah.
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  Cause son played too.
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  I think it was a son.
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  Cool.
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  That's two weeks in a row.
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  You've been playing hockey.
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  Is there any itch to like do it
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  more often?
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  Or do you like just,
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  I would love to like,
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  I would love to play like once a
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  week in a league or something.
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  The problem is a lot of the times
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  they're like at.
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  Ten or eleven o'clock at night.
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  Whoa.
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  And I'm not going to do that.
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  Yeah.
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  Not with work next day, not with training.
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  So if I found a league,
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  I'm probably too late now.
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  Like I'm on a couple of call-ups now.
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  I've talked to people in the last couple
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  of weeks just to be like on a
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  call-up.
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  But if there's like times that it isn't
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  too late, like I think at the latest,
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  latest I'll play is eight PM.
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  I don't want the,
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  I don't even want the nine PM game.
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  But if I found something like weekly like
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  that, I would totally do it.
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  When I played flag football after like
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  losing all the weight,
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  I joined a flag football team.
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  I was like forty four, forty five,
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  forty six.
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  And the games were at like nine,
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  ten and eleven o'clock at night.
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  And, like, by, like, forty-six,
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  forty-seven, and they're like, hey,
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  you coming back next year?
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  One, I played offensive line.
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  You're live blocking with no pads at that
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  age.
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  And playing that late,
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  getting up on Tuesday morning got harder.
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  And I was crossfitting, like,
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  five and six times a week.
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  And I was still, like,
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  I was hurting so bad on Tuesday mornings
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  just from, like, the hitting.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Because these twenty two year old kids
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  don't like they bounce back and so they
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  don't care if they're throwing heads in
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  and like it's crazy.
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  But it was so much fun.
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  It was fun knowing I could still do
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  it like at those ages and keep up
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  with those kids.
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  And my team made the playoffs every single
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  year.
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  And but it did that like the late
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  night and then trying to get up for
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  work on Tuesday morning was just rough.
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  Do you find it hard to fall asleep?
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  Like when you have an activity?
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  Yeah.
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  I get like amped up and it's hard
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  to wind back down.
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  Speaking of flag.
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  Did I,
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  was this like an AI thing that I
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  saw?
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  Is there flag football in the Olympics
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  next in?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  And NFL players are going to play in
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  it.
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  Really?
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  Yeah.
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  They just announced it like a week ago
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  that the NFL is allowing their own players
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  to play on the flag teams.
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  Yeah.
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  And the same,
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  same thing as like what you were saying,
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  like no pads.
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  Correct.
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  I would have loved,
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  loved to have had that growing up as
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  like an Olympic sport.
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  I think that's cool.
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  And what,
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  what was cool is if you didn't,
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  if you didn't watch it, cause a lot,
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  not a lot of people did the pro
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  bowl.
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  They really promoted the flag football.
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  The pro bowlers played like an NFC versus
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  AFC flag football game,
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  but they had like the girls championship
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  right before it.
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  like the national flag football
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  championship right before to promote the
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  sport that it's coming to LA.
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  It's doing on.
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  And the NFL is backing it big time.
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  Um, so it is a cool,
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  a cool thing.
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  Um,
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  I did watch the super bowl as well.
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  Um,
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  I didn't have like a horse in the
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  race.
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  So I told you like I do,
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  two dollar bets.
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  I bet on, um,
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  the over on sacks and I,
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  cause I knew it would be a defensive
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  game and it actually made it exciting for
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  me because I was rooting for sacks.
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  Yeah.
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  um and those i actually won that bet
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  so it was pretty cool i also put
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  a couple on jackson smith and jigba but
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  uh that didn't pan out as he was
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  pretty much shut down and had the possible
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  concussion midway through the game but uh
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  it was fun um yeah i was just
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  rooting for kenneth walker so i i was
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  happy super happy because he's a michigan
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  state kid right yeah yep he was our
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  guy man
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  Yeah, he was great.
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  And to win the MVP, he deserved it.
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  And that holding call on the breakaway
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  touchdown was so chippy.
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  Yeah.
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  So chippy.
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  But yeah, it was a great game.
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  Loved the commercials.
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  Loved everything about it.
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  I just love the Super Bowl.
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  I love the event that it is.
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  Seattle is the best team all year,
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  so there was really no surprise there.
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  It's a lot like the NBA where the
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  Western Conference is better than the
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  Eastern Conference by a lot.
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  And I felt like the NFC was better
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  than the AFC this year by a lot.
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  Whoever came out of that NFC was going
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  to win the Super Bowl.
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  Yeah.
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  I agree.
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  I agree with Ken.
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  Basically,
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  the kicker could have been the MVP with
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  all those...
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  I wish, I mean,
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  I really think someone from the defense
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  should have won the MVP,
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  but not one person stood out enough.
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  Yeah.
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  The rest of them like to get it
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  because that defense played on real.
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  Also on Sunday,
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  we had the Lindsay Vaughn thing.
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  I know I saw that.
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  That was just,
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  I was afraid that was going to happen,
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  but it was when it did happen.
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  Yep.
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  She said that like her knee technically
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  didn't have anything to do with it in
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  her post that she made and that she
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  caught like, I mean,
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  she did what two or three practice runs
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  before a few days before, you know,
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  doing a practice run and doing the real
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  thing or intensity.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  my thing is she clipped the gate with
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  her shoulder.
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  She had,
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  my guess is just the reaction is you're
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  trying to engage things that you're used
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  to engaging and she can say it didn't
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  affect her.
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  We'll never know.
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  Right.
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  But,
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  but that the stability in that leg
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  probably wasn't what she needed to be in
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  that moment.
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  I just hope that I'm hearing like it's
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  going to take several surgeries.
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  And I just hope she is like she
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  is able to walk and have a normal
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  life after this.
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  Yeah.
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  Because she already has a robotic knee on
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  the other side.
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  Yeah.
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  USA trounced Canada right before we got on
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  the air.
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  In what?
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  Five to nothing in hockey.
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  In hockey?
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  Yeah.
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  Our best player is out.
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  I don't even know if she'll be back.
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  the rest of the Olympics.
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  I don't think she will be.
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  Poulay, that is.
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  And they've been getting smoked all year.
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  All season, I guess, by USA.
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  USA seems to be more skilled right now.
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  Younger.
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  We went with experience.
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  Most of the girls on Team Canada are
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  girls in their thirties that I played with
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  and against.
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  Almost the entire team.
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  They have zero university girls that they
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  picked.
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  I'd say that most of their players are
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  probably in their thirties.
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  A lot of experience.
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  They're very talented,
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  but USA just seems to be more skilled
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  right now.
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  The games haven't even been close as of
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  the whole year.
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  They've been getting outshot, outplayed,
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  outscored.
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  That's rough.
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  And then when you lose your top player,
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  that's, it is what it is.
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  But I mean,
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  at the end of the day,
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  we've seen many years where like,
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  there's been many years where USA girls
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  beat Canada at the world championships
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  every single time.
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  And then like the round Robin game at,
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  and then you get to the finals one
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  game.
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  Yep.
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  Anyone can take it.
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  Just have to get there.
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  Just one game.
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  So who knows?
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  I don't know if you had a chance
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  to see this, Carolyn,
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  but Jamie listened to part of it.
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  But Tyler Watkins came out with a state
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  of the open report and put it on
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  the Barbell Spin channel.
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  And what he did is he went through
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  the history of the open and scraped all
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  the data and
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  and then put together trends and things
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  that would help affiliate owners in how
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  they manage the open and move forward.
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  And one,
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  I think he should be commended for doing
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  something like that.
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  And he put it in a really...
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  readable type document that's easy to kind
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  of leaf through and see like trends and
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  things like that.
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  And a couple key points,
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  because they're going to actually go
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  through it tomorrow on the spin.
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  And I want to let them have that
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  to explain it a lot.
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  But a couple key things that came out
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  of the video Tyler put out were that
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  if a person does more than one open,
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  Yeah.
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  That doesn't surprise me.
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  I feel like you should expect that.
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  Now there are, I think he said,
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  forty percent of people only do one open.
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  The other thing was the majority of the
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  people who have a decline from one year
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  to the next do not do the open
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  the year after that.
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  So that's a great trigger point for
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  affiliates to look to if you see that
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  person struggling.
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  that maybe they need more attention or to
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  reach out to them more because they seem
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  to walk away from the open after that.
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  And maybe it's an opportunity to have
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  another touch point with them and keep
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  them in your gym and doing the open.
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  I would venture to guess they're probably
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  checking out of the gym life in general.
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  I mean,
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  I would think the affiliate owner probably
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  already sees the writing on the wall with
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  someone like that who's going to decline.
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  But that's an assumption.
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  This is a fact, right?
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  Right.
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  And I think that's what makes it different
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  now is you can assume that that's
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  happening and now you know because the
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  numbers show it, right?
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  And so I think it gives you way
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  more confidence in addressing the issues
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  that you're seeing.
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  And then the last thing,
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  he made a statement that
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  He doesn't believe that giving gift cards
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  to affiliates is a benefit to the
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  affiliate.
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  Right.
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  we have this pocket of money that we
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  give out gift cards and things of this
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  nature.
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  And he thinks that we should go back
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  to a regionals because regionals gave more
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  back to the affiliates than anything else
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  and use that money to subsidize.
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  And he talked about back when we were
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  doing regionals,
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  it was close to a million dollars a
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  regional to put one on.
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  And now like a good semifinal can be
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  done for three hundred grand or less.
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  And just because of the number of people
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  involved has been reduced.
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  The,
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  the amount of money spent on like
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  streaming can be reduced,
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  all of those things.
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  And so now it's,
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  it can be more cost effective than it
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  was when we stopped doing them back in
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  the late teens.
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  And, and, and,
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  And I've seen that with my own eyes.
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  When I went to a regional in the
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  Central or even earlier at Central East,
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  we packed the house every single time.
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  It was a sellout every single time.
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  And the energy in the building was huge
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  because the affiliates were close enough
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  to drive.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  And you could go support your people.
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  And when forty people made it to
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  regionals.
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  Yes,
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  there were lower level athletes than we
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  see today out competing for those game
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  spots.
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  But those people are who brought the big
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  families and the friends and the
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  affiliates to come cheer them on.
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  It's their games.
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  For sure.
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  Right.
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  And so I think it's interesting.
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  Again,
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  Tyler said tomorrow night on the spin,
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  they're going to go through it in more
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  in depth and talk about more of the
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  stuff.
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  And if you go to the barbell spin,
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  the document is available for you to
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  download.
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  I watched it on YouTube.
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  I enjoyed it.
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  He did like a mini eleven,
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  twelve minute video just kind of
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  summarizing it all.
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  But the actual full document is available
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  for download.
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  And again,
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  tomorrow they're going to talk about it a
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  lot more in depth.
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  I liked that he pointed out that the
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  Masters is what,
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  basically it's aged along with the
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  Masters.
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  I think that's pertinent information for
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  HQ to know.
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  The interesting thing about the Masters is
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  the retention is higher in the
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  Masters-aged athletes than it is at the
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  younger level,
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  which actually kind of makes sense, right?
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  Because the older we get,
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  the more we kind of get in our
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  routine, right?
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  Just like Ken wanting us on Sunday nights
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  that messes with his feng shui.
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  Like once you get into the habit of
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  doing the open every year,
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  it's just the thing you do.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, I mean...
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  Once you've settled into life, work, kids,
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  like the gym is your habit and you're
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  doing it.
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  I think somebody who starts at twenty six
• 17:45
  and then goes and gets married or has
• 17:46
  a kid,
• 17:46
  that's the that's the times that those
• 17:48
  fall offs happen.
• 17:49
  Like they just things, you know,
• 17:51
  a big life change happens, move,
• 17:53
  haven't found a gym, get married,
• 17:55
  have a kid.
• 17:55
  You got to take a year or two
• 17:57
  off, start having some home life.
• 17:59
  So, yeah, it makes sense.
• 18:04
  I still got to look at the video.
• 18:06
  I've been watching so much Olympics,
• 18:08
  way less YouTube things now that like all
• 18:11
  of the Olympic stuff is on.
• 18:12
  So I'll, I'll get to it.
• 18:14
  He, he,
• 18:16
  he taped it and it's cut really well.
• 18:19
  So there's like not a lot of waste.
• 18:21
  It's just like bam, bam, bam,
• 18:23
  bam facts for like ten minutes.
• 18:25
  It's a super quick watch.
• 18:27
  If you haven't seen it,
• 18:28
  go check it out now.
• 18:29
  It's,
• 18:30
  it's really good and really insightful.
• 18:34
  So while we're talking about the open,
• 18:36
  just to pull up where we are right
• 18:39
  now,
• 18:41
  this was just posted about an hour and
• 18:43
  twenty minutes ago on the Mike Halpin
• 18:46
  Instagram page.
• 18:48
  And we are currently at one hundred
• 18:49
  thousand six hundred eighty four.
• 18:51
  So we've broken over the one hundred
• 18:52
  thousand mark.
• 18:54
  That is up thirty seven point six percent
• 18:56
  from last year.
• 18:57
  Nice.
• 19:00
  And you can see, like,
• 19:01
  right about here is where we're at.
• 19:04
  If you can see my pointer,
• 19:05
  it's pretty small.
• 19:07
  But right about here.
• 19:08
  And the trend in the past has always
• 19:10
  been that it kind of spikes up from
• 19:12
  here.
• 19:14
  Because you're getting closer and closer
• 19:16
  to the open.
• 19:17
  The deadline is getting closer and closer.
• 19:20
  And so...
• 19:23
  In the past,
• 19:23
  that trend has kind of taken off.
• 19:26
  The outlier is last year,
• 19:28
  which is this blue line.
• 19:30
  So we're basically a little bit above.
• 19:33
  Is it the the twenty twenty two season?
• 19:35
  Is that what we're looking basically?
• 19:37
  Yeah, right about.
• 19:38
  I don't know what the exact number is.
• 19:40
  I think it's on the next thing.
• 19:42
  No.
• 19:43
  Here.
• 19:45
  Oh, twenty twenty two was one.
• 19:47
  Oh, six.
• 19:50
  Sorry.
• 19:51
  Okay.
• 19:51
  Twenty twenty two is one oh six and
• 19:53
  we're at one hundred six.
• 19:56
  So it's pretty close,
• 19:58
  pretty dead even between those two.
• 20:01
  But again,
• 20:02
  like that made a major event happen in
• 20:05
  twenty twenty four.
• 20:07
  There was like I said this afternoon,
• 20:09
  there was a death in the family and
• 20:10
  there was a grieving process and that
• 20:13
  affected twenty twenty five.
• 20:15
  And so it's really important that we focus
• 20:17
  on the improvement from that as we're
• 20:19
  coming out of that.
• 20:22
  Agreed.
• 20:24
  Like COVID brought it down and then we
• 20:27
  were starting to come back up.
• 20:28
  Then obviously the Lazar thing drew way
• 20:32
  less people to the season last year.
• 20:34
  And then it'll kind of have that same,
• 20:39
  I think, trajectory coming back up again.
• 20:41
  So I think realistically,
• 20:43
  you just are looking at these two years
• 20:46
  to see the improvement.
• 20:47
  And then as we get a little bit
• 20:49
  further away,
• 20:49
  then you can compare it back to these
• 20:51
  numbers coming out of COVID.
• 20:53
  Because twenty twenty two is two years
• 20:56
  after COVID.
• 20:58
  We are now two years after Lazar and
• 21:00
  it's really similar.
• 21:02
  Yeah.
• 21:04
  Right.
• 21:05
  So next year we should be looking at
• 21:07
  twenty twenty three.
• 21:08
  And how do we look there?
• 21:10
  Like, are we on the same trend?
• 21:15
  So anyway.
• 21:17
  I think that, you know,
• 21:18
  when we were coming into the open,
• 21:19
  there were a lot of people saying they
• 21:21
  thought we wouldn't match last year's
• 21:23
  number.
• 21:24
  And I think the numbers are showing a
• 21:27
  nice trend.
• 21:28
  And I think that CrossFit media doing much
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  more this year has helped tremendously.
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  The word is out there much more than
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  it's been in the last few years.
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• 22:46
  So, WFP.
• 22:49
  WFP, their male lineup, I thought,
• 22:52
  was pretty much set.
• 22:53
  Yep.
• 22:54
  They just announced the last three
• 22:56
  signings.
• 22:58
  Well, I can't say last three.
• 23:00
  Colton Mertens, Tolomor Akinyo,
• 23:03
  and Yonikoski were announced as signed.
• 23:07
  Yep.
• 23:07
  Yep.
• 23:08
  There's one spot left and James Sprague
• 23:12
  has not been announced.
• 23:15
  Which is weird.
• 23:15
  He's stated several times he's in.
• 23:20
  So this came out just before we went
• 23:22
  live.
• 23:24
  The barbell spin with today's WFP
• 23:26
  announcement that Koski, Mertens,
• 23:27
  and Morakinyo signed their contracts.
• 23:29
  There's only one spot remaining in the
• 23:32
  men's field.
• 23:32
  The last announcement will be Sprague,
• 23:34
  right?
• 23:35
  And look,
• 23:36
  there's James Sprague in the comments.
• 23:38
  You are influenced by the top five people
• 23:41
  you hang around.
• 23:42
  At the boys interrupted.
• 23:45
  Oh, no.
• 23:46
  I kind of hate that for him.
• 23:57
  I thought he had a decent plan going
• 23:59
  into the season.
• 23:59
  I did too.
• 24:00
  Reduce the amount of semifinals you sign
• 24:02
  up for, do Mexico City,
• 24:06
  and then everything else is after the
• 24:07
  season.
• 24:12
  Mm-hmm.
• 24:12
  But is James playing with us,
• 24:18
  or is he serious?
• 24:24
  I feel like James doesn't normally...
• 24:27
  lie too much like he's he's over he's
• 24:30
  an overshare of every information but
• 24:33
  there's really not an answer here either
• 24:35
  yeah no but i mean that's that's pretty
• 24:40
  kind of an answer it kind of is
• 24:42
  an answer
• 24:47
  Interesting.
• 24:47
  I wasn't expecting that.
• 24:49
  He said he loves competing and he loves
• 24:53
  the opportunity.
• 24:55
  He was first.
• 24:56
  A hundred grand is nothing to sniff at.
• 25:01
  I mean,
• 25:02
  if he wants to provide for his family
• 25:04
  while he can,
• 25:05
  it's a sure shot right there to just
• 25:08
  get your money.
• 25:11
  Yeah,
• 25:12
  I was really shocked when I saw that.
• 25:13
  Yeah,
• 25:14
  because each of the events is how much?
• 25:17
  Each one of them, if he wins.
• 25:19
  Let's say he wins all three.
• 25:21
  How much is that in total?
• 25:23
  Wasn't it like around one hundred and
• 25:24
  fifty thousand?
• 25:25
  I think so.
• 25:26
  That's more than a second place at the
• 25:29
  games.
• 25:32
  And he's guaranteed a hundred.
• 25:33
  That's more than a second place at the
• 25:35
  games.
• 25:36
  Right.
• 25:36
  I don't know why you wouldn't do that.
• 25:39
  Like,
• 25:40
  I get you want to win the games,
• 25:41
  but like.
• 25:43
  I still think he can win the games
• 25:45
  and do that.
• 25:45
  I know.
• 25:48
  So I put in the rundown a question
• 25:51
  for you two.
• 25:52
  Because you guys,
• 25:53
  like I don't have this opportunity, right?
• 25:56
  You guys at your peaks would have this
• 25:58
  opportunity.
• 26:00
  If you were presented with the opportunity
• 26:03
  at WFP and the opportunity to compete for
• 26:07
  the CrossFit Games,
• 26:09
  would you do CrossFit Games?
• 26:12
  Would you do WFP?
• 26:14
  Or would you do both?
• 26:15
  I'd do both.
• 26:19
  I just can't with work.
• 26:20
  I can't take that much time off to
• 26:21
  travel to compete.
• 26:22
  But if I wasn't a teacher and working
• 26:24
  full time, a hundred percent,
• 26:25
  I'm doing both.
• 26:28
  Yeah.
• 26:29
  I mean, I would do both.
• 26:30
  I that's really hard to say though.
• 26:31
  Cause I'm like,
• 26:32
  just never anywhere near the opportunities
• 26:36
  of James.
• 26:36
  Like I suppose if you,
• 26:41
  if you truly were pretty confident you
• 26:44
  could win the games, it, it,
• 26:49
  I don't know.
• 26:50
  It might be worth buckling down on that.
• 26:55
  Has he had any overuse injuries?
• 26:58
  Was anything going on this year?
• 27:00
  I mean, I never heard any of that.
• 27:01
  He doesn't seem like the kind of guy
• 27:02
  who isn't, even with the competing...
• 27:05
  If anyone, I'd say that'd be Colton.
• 27:07
  Colton over-competed and did a little too
• 27:09
  much.
• 27:09
  James was really smart with...
• 27:13
  his season, I feel like, and I,
• 27:16
  he's getting stronger,
• 27:18
  which is crazy with when you're competing
• 27:20
  that much.
• 27:21
  Um, and that's really what he needed.
• 27:24
  I think these opportunities to learn on
• 27:28
  the competition floor have only continued
• 27:30
  to make him better and better.
• 27:32
  He's just a, he's a good racer.
• 27:36
  Ken says he's not passing on a hundred
• 27:38
  K. Chad and new.
• 27:40
  Well, that's just a different thing.
• 27:41
  We'll get to that in a second.
• 27:43
  John George says pencil.
• 27:46
  I think he's playing games,
• 27:47
  but would be crazy if he declined.
• 27:50
  And then I didn't know this,
• 27:51
  but Chad and Newfie says like how Sprague
• 27:54
  doesn't have the WFP leather jacket in his
• 27:56
  background when he goes on boys
• 27:58
  interrupted pods,
• 27:59
  but then it's hanging there the next
• 28:00
  morning on the seven pod.
• 28:03
  Okay.
• 28:04
  I swear it was in the last.
• 28:08
  Terry says,
• 28:09
  or maybe taxes on the prize were too
• 28:10
  high in Europe.
• 28:11
  So,
• 28:12
  Will Morad said something on Rich Froning
• 28:14
  yesterday about taxes.
• 28:16
  And then he did preface it with,
• 28:17
  I'm not a tax expert.
• 28:20
  But because the payout in Copenhagen was
• 28:23
  for the tour and not for the event.
• 28:26
  Right.
• 28:27
  It actually,
• 28:28
  the taxes would not be European.
• 28:30
  Right.
• 28:31
  It's based on the company, WFP,
• 28:33
  which is probably HQ'd here.
• 28:38
  I laugh at that because we get taxed
• 28:40
  all the time when we compete in the
• 28:41
  States.
• 28:41
  That's just a normal thing.
• 28:45
  Europeans, Australians, everyone,
• 28:48
  just you guys never come outside of the
• 28:50
  States to compete to know that that's a
• 28:52
  reality for all the athletes that compete
• 28:55
  in the States,
• 28:55
  that there's a thirty percent withhold of
• 28:57
  your earnings every single time.
• 29:02
  John George says it's clickbait.
• 29:04
  I just don't.
• 29:05
  James doesn't seem to be that dude.
• 29:07
  He doesn't.
• 29:09
  But who knows?
• 29:12
  Chattanooga starting a new rumor.
• 29:14
  Wife is pregnant.
• 29:15
  Doesn't want to be overcommitted.
• 29:16
  Now there's rumor mill fodder.
• 29:18
  Well, they talked about that.
• 29:20
  He had said he had, like,
• 29:22
  he took a picture with his wife,
• 29:24
  and he was holding the blue Jocko fuel
• 29:25
  can, and she was holding the pink one,
• 29:27
  and he almost posted it,
• 29:28
  but he was like,
• 29:30
  it almost seemed like a gender reveal,
• 29:33
  and he felt like he shouldn't do that.
• 29:35
  So, I don't know.
• 29:37
  Like, or was it real,
• 29:39
  and he feels like he needs to wait?
• 29:41
  I don't know.
• 29:45
  I don't know.
• 29:47
  If you're confident enough,
• 29:47
  you can qualify at whichever semifinal you
• 29:49
  go to.
• 29:50
  You do both.
• 29:51
  It's one tour.
• 29:52
  Right.
• 29:52
  Yeah.
• 29:53
  He's got one.
• 29:53
  He's got the open and quarters,
• 29:55
  which he can just breeze through.
• 29:56
  It doesn't even matter.
• 29:57
  Then he's going to go compete in Mexico
• 30:00
  early May.
• 30:01
  And then he's got his semifinals end of
• 30:04
  May or online semifinals for seven spots
• 30:08
  like a month later.
• 30:10
  That's plenty of time.
• 30:12
  Then you got the games and then the
• 30:13
  other one isn't until December or when
• 30:16
  after the games in August.
• 30:17
  Like I could totally see him being able
• 30:19
  like it's not that much.
• 30:21
  Now,
• 30:21
  if you go and do five semifinals because
• 30:23
  you're trying to qualify everywhere,
• 30:25
  like some of the athletes from last year
• 30:26
  that were just desperate going everywhere,
• 30:28
  that's different.
• 30:29
  But in someone like James,
• 30:31
  who is arguably the fittest right now in
• 30:33
  the men's field,
• 30:36
  I feel like he could compete in May
• 30:38
  at the end of May.
• 30:40
  He signed up for Del Mar?
• 30:41
  Is that the one he confirmed?
• 30:43
  No, he confirmed NorCal.
• 30:45
  Oh, NorCal.
• 30:45
  Okay.
• 30:48
  Which is end of May.
• 30:49
  Okay.
• 30:52
  Yeah, I thought he had a great plan.
• 30:54
  I thought his plan made sense.
• 30:56
  And I think, like,
• 31:00
  I get why the others didn't want to
• 31:01
  do it because they did feel burnout.
• 31:03
  They didn't like the experience.
• 31:05
  James won.
• 31:06
  James won WFP, right?
• 31:09
  And he did well at everything he went
• 31:10
  to last year.
• 31:13
  He's always relevant.
• 31:14
  His trains seems to be more conducive to
• 31:17
  a little bit busier schedule.
• 31:18
  That's what I'm saying.
• 31:21
  So that's why it's weird because he said
• 31:23
  one thing and now we're,
• 31:25
  we're hinting at another direction and
• 31:28
  that's why it's just odd.
• 31:30
  I mean,
• 31:31
  how many of us said that he was
• 31:34
  the athlete of the year in.
• 31:38
  And he didn't even,
• 31:39
  and he didn't even win the games.
• 31:40
  Like he it's getting,
• 31:43
  it's getting him more support show,
• 31:46
  like winning these things and showing that
• 31:48
  he's just that dominant.
• 31:51
  I think he's almost separated himself from
• 31:54
  that top group.
• 31:55
  Almost.
• 31:56
  In terms of...
• 31:58
  I think he's almost a tier above them
• 32:00
  right now.
• 32:00
  He's just so consistent anyway,
• 32:02
  regardless of the programming.
• 32:03
  I think the only place he doesn't separate
• 32:05
  himself is Rogue.
• 32:08
  Rogue is just too heavy.
• 32:09
  He did excellent this year at Rogue.
• 32:11
  Right,
• 32:11
  but he was not in contention to win.
• 32:15
  True.
• 32:17
  The only asterisk to all of this is...
• 32:20
  Jeff Adler's health.
• 32:22
  Yeah.
• 32:24
  Yeah.
• 32:24
  Other than that, like,
• 32:25
  I feel like James has been so good
• 32:29
  all year, all year.
• 32:31
  Really?
• 32:32
  Because he won Waterpalooza.
• 32:35
  He won WFP.
• 32:37
  He took fourth at the games, right?
• 32:40
  Fourth, third, fourth.
• 32:46
  Ricky was second.
• 32:47
  Was James third?
• 32:48
  James was third, right?
• 32:51
  Dallin was fourth.
• 32:52
  Yeah.
• 32:53
  James was third.
• 32:55
  Yeah, they were podiumed at the games.
• 32:57
  And then he took fourth at Rogue.
• 33:00
  That's a hell of a year.
• 33:07
  Yeah.
• 33:10
  So, it's just weird.
• 33:13
  Then we look at the women's side at
• 33:15
  WP and nothing has been announced.
• 33:17
  That doesn't make any sense.
• 33:19
  Like, no one.
• 33:20
  Ten finishers last year.
• 33:22
  We know two answers.
• 33:24
  We know that Emma Tall is in,
• 33:27
  and we know that Lucy Campbell is out.
• 33:30
  And the other eight, we have no idea.
• 33:33
  Because the only other announcements are
• 33:35
  from eleven on.
• 33:40
  And they haven't dipped into the
• 33:42
  twenty-one past,
• 33:44
  so we
• 33:47
  So we just don't know.
• 33:50
  Why do we know the entire men's field
• 33:53
  except for one position,
• 33:54
  and we don't know a single thing about
• 33:56
  the top ten women?
• 33:58
  There wasn't a separate signing date for
• 34:00
  women, right?
• 34:03
  In the first announcement,
• 34:04
  they announced a handful of women,
• 34:08
  like Andrea Selberg and Hannah Black.
• 34:12
  Hannah Black wasn't announced as a sign.
• 34:14
  Does it?
• 34:16
  But Olda was and Emma Tall was.
• 34:21
  Lydia Fish was.
• 34:25
  Emily Rolfe was.
• 34:27
  So like that,
• 34:28
  eleven through fifteen was pretty much all
• 34:32
  a yes.
• 34:33
  And then Olda at nineteen was.
• 34:36
  we don't know like a smack like danny
• 34:38
  spiegel didn't it wasn't on the list and
• 34:42
  then the nine ten up we only know
• 34:45
  the two emma tall and lucy campbell and
• 34:47
  we only know lucy because she said it
• 34:49
  on talking elite fitness it's just bizarro
• 34:58
  world because it is weird like is laura
• 35:02
  signed up for the open
• 35:04
  I have not heard that.
• 35:07
  I mean,
• 35:07
  you would think she would stay with WFP.
• 35:11
  Here's a little sidetrack.
• 35:12
  But Noah Olsen is.
• 35:14
  I know.
• 35:15
  Do you...
• 35:16
  Do you realize how wild the thirty five
• 35:18
  to thirty nine year old man could be
• 35:21
  this year at the games with Noah?
• 35:24
  Could Pat go there too?
• 35:27
  Pat Vellner could go there.
• 35:29
  Because Pat could.
• 35:30
  Because if Pat doesn't qualify
• 35:32
  individually, let's say.
• 35:34
  Con was there last year.
• 35:35
  Sam Dancer said he's coming.
• 35:37
  Yep.
• 35:39
  I mean,
• 35:40
  that is a crazy field of Masters athletes.
• 35:44
  Is Marquand in there now, too?
• 35:46
  He was there last year.
• 35:51
  Yeah.
• 35:51
  But, like, Kepner is taking it, like,
• 35:52
  super seriously.
• 35:53
  I know.
• 35:53
  I love it.
• 35:54
  I love it so much.
• 35:55
  He's funny.
• 35:58
  I mean, that...
• 36:02
  I was debating on whether going out,
• 36:04
  because I already have a hotel from
• 36:05
  Wednesday on,
• 36:07
  and debating getting the hotel from Monday
• 36:10
  so I could watch the beginning of the
• 36:12
  Masters.
• 36:13
  Cause I,
• 36:14
  I'd want to change the way I'm doing
• 36:15
  things this year and I don't want to
• 36:17
  have to be at every single thing.
• 36:19
  Right.
• 36:20
  But man,
• 36:20
  that may be too good to pass up.
• 36:24
  And I don't even know who's coming into
• 36:25
  the women's thirty five to thirty nine.
• 36:28
  Yeah.
• 36:28
  Like we've got Carolyn there,
• 36:31
  but I don't know who else is coming.
• 36:34
  And that has always been a good battle.
• 36:40
  It's really exciting when you're seeing
• 36:41
  more and more of the legends now willing
• 36:44
  to do the Masters.
• 36:46
  Yeah.
• 36:47
  For us OGs to go see that,
• 36:50
  it's kind of worth it if you're making
• 36:52
  the trip out there.
• 36:53
  Well,
• 36:53
  that was the point of adding that thirty
• 36:55
  five to thirty nine was there.
• 36:57
  There were so many good games.
• 36:59
  Athletes that were just just not making it
• 37:02
  anymore.
• 37:03
  And then it was an opportunity to have
• 37:04
  them continue to compete because it was
• 37:05
  always forty and above before.
• 37:07
  Right.
• 37:08
  Forty and above.
• 37:09
  Yeah.
• 37:10
  Well,
• 37:11
  and I don't know how much of the
• 37:12
  Rich Froning podcast you saw,
• 37:14
  but Rich said back in the day,
• 37:16
  they only thought they'd have a four or
• 37:18
  five year career.
• 37:20
  And they were beating themselves up for
• 37:23
  those four to five years.
• 37:25
  And now Rich's knee won't let them do
• 37:27
  the things to compete.
• 37:29
  But the later we get into the
• 37:34
  the timeline of CrossFit,
• 37:36
  the better people understood training and
• 37:39
  the less beat up they are.
• 37:40
  So you're getting a better quality of
• 37:43
  thirty five to thirty nine year old.
• 37:49
  So Vicky and Mark are both confirming that
• 37:52
  Laura has not signed up for the open
• 37:53
  yet.
• 37:54
  So I mean, anything.
• 37:57
  Yeah, we bring up those comment.
• 37:58
  The second one.
• 37:59
  I feel which one will the roster be
• 38:04
  complete?
• 38:07
  So Phil says,
• 38:08
  will the roster be complete before the
• 38:10
  qualifier starts,
• 38:11
  which starts in seven days?
• 38:12
  I think that's incredibly important to
• 38:16
  have that released.
• 38:18
  This was kind of like...
• 38:21
  Here's why it's not.
• 38:25
  Here's why it's not.
• 38:26
  Because the rule they made this year is
• 38:30
  if you went to Copenhagen,
• 38:32
  you get an automatic bid to Mexico City.
• 38:36
  So anybody in the top thirty do not
• 38:38
  have to do the qualifier,
• 38:40
  whether you're a pro or not.
• 38:44
  So you should just assume that those
• 38:46
  thirty are in, maybe a couple left.
• 38:47
  What if like Mexico City,
• 38:49
  the top twenty like they're the top
• 38:52
  athletes that weren't given a pro spot,
• 38:55
  they get their pro spot there for the
• 38:58
  season because they're lacking so many
• 38:59
  females.
• 39:06
  Well,
• 39:06
  I think they've announced like eight,
• 39:10
  eight of the twenty.
• 39:13
  So let's say they can't fill it.
• 39:16
  Then you go, okay,
• 39:17
  Mexico City becomes earn your spot.
• 39:19
  Yeah.
• 39:20
  That'd be kind of cool, actually.
• 39:23
  That would be cool.
• 39:25
  If that were the case, would Carolyn go?
• 39:28
  I'd try.
• 39:29
  Maybe see what the qualified workouts are.
• 39:32
  I mean,
• 39:33
  that'll be back-to-back weekends to
• 39:34
  compete for me because I'm doing Del Mar.
• 39:41
  But you, as an athlete,
• 39:43
  to get your season paid for,
• 39:46
  not only are you getting a check from
• 39:48
  them,
• 39:49
  but you're also getting your travel paid
• 39:53
  for for their tour events.
• 39:55
  So you get to go to those events
• 39:57
  without any money coming out of pocket.
• 40:00
  The difficulty with that is qualifying to
• 40:04
  each of the events to have enough points.
• 40:07
  Exactly.
• 40:08
  Right.
• 40:08
  To be able to compete and then earn
• 40:11
  your spot for the following year.
• 40:15
  And then mixing that in with the game
• 40:16
  season for me.
• 40:18
  Yeah.
• 40:19
  It's just tough because I can only take
• 40:21
  so many days off and I don't like
• 40:24
  taking them in chunks because it's just,
• 40:26
  it's hard on the students.
• 40:27
  Like you,
• 40:29
  Del Mar,
• 40:29
  I'm going to have to miss four days
• 40:31
  consecutive.
• 40:32
  And I think like that's,
• 40:33
  I don't do that very often.
• 40:35
  At most, normally I do three.
• 40:39
  So.
• 40:40
  Phil B, they have also sent,
• 40:42
  have they sent out the special invites?
• 40:45
  I don't think they have because they
• 40:46
  haven't even filled out the pro roster
• 40:48
  yet.
• 40:48
  I think they need to scrap that.
• 40:53
  You know why they did that?
• 40:54
  So, like,
• 40:55
  if someone had a change of heart like
• 40:57
  Jason Hopper or who didn't qualify for a
• 41:00
  pro card,
• 41:01
  they could get a top-end athlete to come
• 41:03
  in and compete without having to do the
• 41:06
  qualifier.
• 41:08
  There isn't anyone out there like that.
• 41:09
  You have no top end athletes who are
• 41:12
  fighting for that.
• 41:13
  So you don't just don't do that.
• 41:15
  You need people who want to be there,
• 41:17
  who want to hype up your season.
• 41:20
  Not these, not these guys who.
• 41:23
  Assuming they're making sense in their
• 41:25
  head.
• 41:28
  I think they, they knew that people,
• 41:30
  that people had withdrawn last year.
• 41:33
  like Alexis Raptus or Jason Hopper or all
• 41:37
  these people that didn't show up for the
• 41:39
  last tour event.
• 41:42
  It was a way to bring them back
• 41:44
  in without them having to do the
• 41:46
  qualifier.
• 41:51
  That's all it is.
• 41:55
  It's underestimating
• 41:58
  who you thought you would have and now
• 42:01
  trying to have a bandaid in case they
• 42:02
  want to come back.
• 42:10
  Ken, in the absence of Fergie, Jamie,
• 42:13
  would you rather have played a sport for
• 42:14
  Michigan state or make one CrossFit games
• 42:17
  as an Indy?
• 42:22
  That's kind of tough.
• 42:23
  I mean,
• 42:23
  are you saying I was like a full
• 42:24
  ride scholarship to MSU?
• 42:27
  Full ride and a national championship
• 42:29
  there.
• 42:30
  Oh, that's tough.
• 42:34
  Full ride,
• 42:35
  national championship versus one CrossFit
• 42:37
  Games as an individual athlete.
• 42:47
  I feel like more people would know me
• 42:49
  from, I mean, I don't know.
• 42:50
  I mean,
• 42:51
  your local people of MSU people would know
• 42:53
  you,
• 42:53
  but you guys wouldn't know me just from
• 42:56
  being a MSU athlete.
• 42:59
  So.
• 43:01
  Depends on if you were the only woman
• 43:03
  on the football team or if you were.
• 43:04
  I mean,
• 43:07
  it would have been like running or
• 43:08
  something.
• 43:11
  That is a really tough question.
• 43:13
  Ken, good one.
• 43:14
  I don't know.
• 43:18
  I, I feel like I, you know,
• 43:21
  if you could have done well,
• 43:22
  if you could have made the games and
• 43:24
  been somewhat relevant and got gotten some
• 43:27
  type of following that,
• 43:27
  I feel like that's where you were going
• 43:29
  to get sponsors and make a name for
• 43:33
  yourself.
• 43:33
  Not necessarily the college route.
• 43:34
  So you think financial, I think glory.
• 43:39
  Yeah.
• 43:42
  I mean, money rules the world.
• 43:46
  Yeah, that would have been really cool.
• 43:50
  So let me just say,
• 43:52
  I was a Division I athlete for a
• 43:54
  few months at Ohio State.
• 43:56
  The swag you get, it was unreal.
• 43:59
  Yeah.
• 44:00
  Walking into like Wendy's with your shit
• 44:03
  on, like people bow to you.
• 44:07
  It is unreal in a college town.
• 44:10
  It is.
• 44:13
  I ran for central.
• 44:13
  But like the same thing happens.
• 44:14
  You make the CrossFit games and you get
• 44:16
  the kit with all the stuff and you
• 44:18
  walk into a CrossFit gym and people are
• 44:20
  like, Oh, right.
• 44:22
  Exactly.
• 44:25
  But man, that,
• 44:26
  that brief stint at Ohio state,
• 44:29
  when I wore the jacket and stuff like
• 44:32
  it was real.
• 44:34
  And I was a swimmer.
• 44:35
  I was not like out on the football
• 44:37
  field or the basketball court.
• 44:43
  Yeah.
• 44:43
  I just feel like the pool,
• 44:45
  you say the glory,
• 44:46
  the difference is the pool of the CrossFit
• 44:49
  is smaller than...
• 44:53
  I think it's all in your own mind.
• 44:54
  Yeah.
• 44:55
  I think if I was asked that question,
• 44:57
  I would take the CrossFit Games.
• 44:59
  One,
• 45:00
  because I just love that sport so much.
• 45:01
  Right.
• 45:02
  And the kit you get and the stuff
• 45:06
  you could hang on the wall at home,
• 45:08
  the stories you could tell,
• 45:09
  like all of that would mean a lot
• 45:11
  to me.
• 45:14
  I know my head leans that way a
• 45:16
  little bit, but that's a great question.
• 45:21
  I have both.
• 45:21
  I have both because I have a national
• 45:23
  championship at Wisco.
• 45:24
  A couple of them.
• 45:26
  But it's different because it's a team
• 45:29
  sport versus individual sport.
• 45:31
  I'm like proudest of like my CrossFit
• 45:35
  games, especially like, but like going,
• 45:37
  like competing in Madison there,
• 45:40
  like for my first time was like,
• 45:43
  so cool going to the university there.
• 45:46
  Um,
• 45:47
  and like being alone with the spotlight
• 45:50
  versus being on a team,
• 45:51
  like that's different, but I don't know.
• 45:55
  National championship is like,
• 45:56
  those are the best years, the best years.
• 45:59
  Do you have a ring?
• 46:01
  Yeah, I have two rings.
• 46:03
  They're like this fat.
• 46:05
  They're in Sarnia, though.
• 46:07
  And then, yeah, our last year,
• 46:10
  we lost in the finals to Minnesota.
• 46:13
  Now,
• 46:13
  Jamie has all the fantasy rings from
• 46:15
  our... Yeah,
• 46:17
  she has the one I wanted this year.
• 46:19
  Ken, I'm going to say CrossFit,
• 46:21
  especially if it's podium,
• 46:22
  like Vicky said.
• 46:23
  Yeah, if it's podium, then that's easy.
• 46:25
  CrossFit.
• 46:26
  If it's not podium and you're just
• 46:27
  participating at the games as an
• 46:28
  individual, I don't know.
• 46:30
  I think...
• 46:32
  The university stuff is hard to beat.
• 46:36
  Vicky said, Scott, it's like you said,
• 46:37
  it was created off the back of tragedy,
• 46:39
  basically confirmed by Will on Mayhem
• 46:41
  podcast.
• 46:42
  Things like that don't sustain.
• 46:44
  Well, you have to build a foundation,
• 46:46
  right?
• 46:46
  And that's when you rush things,
• 46:48
  sometimes you forget about the bottom of
• 46:51
  the pyramid, right?
• 46:53
  And it's like when you're trying to lose
• 46:55
  weight and you skip the step of nutrition
• 46:58
  and you just dive into working out without
• 47:01
  the base of the pyramid, the foundation,
• 47:03
  you're not going to get anywhere.
• 47:05
  You have to, you have to take us.
• 47:08
  And here's where like the next thing was
• 47:10
  rule book come out, right?
• 47:12
  When you went into this season,
• 47:14
  you should have sat down with your team
• 47:15
  and said, all right,
• 47:16
  what were the PR nightmares of last year
• 47:18
  and how do we avoid them?
• 47:20
  Cause we need to build a foundation.
• 47:23
  And then they put out the rule book
• 47:24
  and they leave the drug thing in that
• 47:26
  was a PR nightmare from the year before.
• 47:30
  Those are the mistakes and the
• 47:31
  foundational pieces that WFP needs to work
• 47:35
  on if they want to succeed.
• 47:41
  And what's happened to me, in my opinion,
• 47:43
  is right now WFP is right-sizing.
• 47:48
  They are becoming that developmental
• 47:50
  league that
• 47:52
  where an athlete like Sydney McElishan or
• 47:57
  Hannah black or Lydia fish can go develop
• 48:01
  skills,
• 48:02
  can have good competition to go up against
• 48:05
  and can have money to support themselves
• 48:07
  for the year.
• 48:10
  And that could be very, very successful.
• 48:12
  And through that and how you treat those
• 48:14
  athletes could get you brand loyalty
• 48:17
  moving forward.
• 48:21
  But the games have been around too long
• 48:23
  right now for you to jump in and
• 48:24
  think you can buy that.
• 48:28
  You have to go back to earning it.
• 48:30
  By the way you treat the people,
• 48:31
  by the way you run your events,
• 48:33
  and you work together with the athletes
• 48:38
  who need you,
• 48:40
  and you need them to grow what you
• 48:42
  have as this awesome developmental league.
• 48:45
  And when I say developmental,
• 48:47
  I don't mean minor leagues.
• 48:49
  The way I compared it and I said
• 48:50
  it today was it's like the Big Ten
• 48:53
  and the SEC are the CrossFit Games and
• 48:55
  the ACC is the WFP.
• 48:58
  You still have really good athletes who
• 49:00
  could maybe beat anybody on the upper tier
• 49:02
  at any given time,
• 49:04
  but the people on the upper tier are
• 49:05
  going to be favored.
• 49:10
  The concept of the league is cool, though.
• 49:15
  And like having the points continue and
• 49:17
  like, imagine in a,
• 49:19
  in a world where like,
• 49:20
  let's say CrossFit games was part of the
• 49:22
  WFP season.
• 49:23
  And it's like, that's like the masters,
• 49:26
  like the biggest,
• 49:27
  like you don't have the grand slam,
• 49:29
  but you have like,
• 49:30
  that's the biggest payout or whatever.
• 49:33
  Right.
• 49:33
  And you have rogue or,
• 49:34
  and they all are part of the season,
• 49:36
  rogue games and a WFP final.
• 49:40
  Right.
• 49:40
  It's a triple crown.
• 49:42
  Like that would be cool.
• 49:43
  And all the points continue.
• 49:45
  kind of add up, but it just,
• 49:48
  there's just not enough cohesion between
• 49:49
  everything.
• 49:51
  You have to build that foundation for that
• 49:53
  to happen.
• 49:54
  Yeah.
• 49:54
  And they just don't have it yet.
• 49:56
  They need to take a step back and
• 49:58
  build a foundation.
• 50:00
  And like Lydia fish is so young.
• 50:04
  And if you treat her well,
• 50:06
  and she has a good season,
• 50:08
  that brand loyalty of her signed and
• 50:10
  having a great experience could pay off in
• 50:13
  a year or two.
• 50:15
  where she says, you know what?
• 50:16
  I could go up and put all my
• 50:18
  eggs in the games basket,
• 50:19
  but these guys have been too good to
• 50:21
  me.
• 50:21
  I'm going to stay on for another year.
• 50:29
  But they have to look themselves in the
• 50:31
  mirror and say, hey,
• 50:32
  we need to build this foundation correctly
• 50:34
  for that to happen.
• 50:36
  Like right now,
• 50:38
  the WFP for a lot of athletes are
• 50:42
  backup plans.
• 50:43
  It's
• 50:44
  to make sure that they have at least
• 50:46
  some income.
• 50:48
  It covers our thing.
• 50:49
  And then they're still trying to qualify
• 50:51
  individually at the games.
• 50:53
  But then if they don't,
• 50:54
  they can fall back.
• 50:55
  They have the WFP cushion, right?
• 50:58
  Not many of the athletes are like just
• 51:00
  going WFP.
• 51:02
  It's a lot of them.
• 51:04
  It's their, yeah,
• 51:06
  it's more of like their fallback option.
• 51:08
  And it's a great option for a lot
• 51:10
  of athletes because
• 51:12
  to have everything paid for and, you know,
• 51:14
  to have a competition with some solid
• 51:17
  competitors that are like high semifinals
• 51:20
  games, athletes together.
• 51:23
  It's perfect.
• 51:25
  Just it's another option for people.
• 51:28
  Cross fat says like staying in college for
• 51:30
  the NIL money,
• 51:31
  as opposed to going pro look at the
• 51:33
  Oregon quarterback.
• 51:34
  I think his name is Dante Moore.
• 51:36
  He would have been probably a top five
• 51:38
  draft pick in the NFL.
• 51:40
  And he said, you know what?
• 51:41
  I make enough NIL money and I'm not
• 51:43
  good enough yet.
• 51:44
  I'm not good enough to go to the
• 51:46
  NFL and be successful.
• 51:49
  So I'm going to stay back a year,
• 51:51
  take my NIL money at Oregon and,
• 51:54
  play with a top-end team,
• 51:56
  and develop my skills so that I'm ready
• 51:59
  the next year when I go into the
• 52:01
  draft.
• 52:03
  It's that same concept for these athletes.
• 52:07
  Maybe Lydia Fish isn't good enough to go
• 52:09
  to the games and compete yet.
• 52:13
  Because she's like a twenty to thirty
• 52:15
  place finisher, right?
• 52:16
  And you don't even earn anything.
• 52:17
  She was higher than that.
• 52:19
  Was she?
• 52:19
  Yeah.
• 52:20
  Okay.
• 52:20
  Yeah.
• 52:23
  She did great at the games.
• 52:24
  Okay.
• 52:27
  My bad.
• 52:28
  Let me check.
• 52:37
  The cracks forming.
• 52:38
  What's that?
• 52:41
  She finished thirteenth.
• 52:43
  That's pretty good.
• 52:45
  CrossFit says the cracks forming in Liv
• 52:47
  can't make them feel good at WFP.
• 52:50
  True.
• 52:50
  True.
• 52:52
  Because the big names are leaving live now
• 52:55
  after they got all those big name golfers.
• 52:57
  They're going back to the PGA.
• 52:57
  Yeah, that's not good.
• 53:05
  So is Carson Beck, Laura Horvath.
• 53:07
  Yeah,
• 53:07
  Carson Beck going back for his eighth
• 53:09
  season of college.
• 53:15
  No, not that one.
• 53:20
  The fact that WFP is doing a second
• 53:21
  season means they're doing something
• 53:23
  really good.
• 53:25
  No, it doesn't.
• 53:26
  I mean,
• 53:26
  that just means they had enough money in
• 53:28
  the pot to... I mean,
• 53:32
  I think they have enough money in the
• 53:32
  pot to last a few years.
• 53:34
  We won't know.
• 53:37
  That's part of a lot of businesses'
• 53:39
  investment.
• 53:39
  Normally, you know,
• 53:40
  they give themselves...
• 53:42
  couple years to even three years and
• 53:44
  sometimes they're at a loss and then
• 53:46
  they're still chipping away to try to
• 53:48
  break through and I think that that's fine
• 53:51
  by the WFP I still think that they
• 53:53
  had a very successful first year and got
• 53:57
  better throughout like worked on a lot of
• 54:00
  things and hopefully they can
• 54:03
  you know,
• 54:04
  bring something new this year or continue
• 54:06
  to evolve to eventually hopefully break
• 54:09
  through.
• 54:12
  But I think that that's normal for them
• 54:14
  to have a second season and third and
• 54:16
  maybe cut some losses at first.
• 54:24
  Ken said,
• 54:24
  but you risk injury and there goes that
• 54:26
  NFL deal.
• 54:27
  Yeah.
• 54:27
  That's true for the college.
• 54:29
  Sure.
• 54:29
  But in, in CrossFit,
• 54:32
  WFP is guaranteed money.
• 54:34
  If you're a pro, like for Lydia fish,
• 54:37
  the games are not guaranteed money and you
• 54:39
  could get hurt and then earn nothing in
• 54:41
  the CrossFit game season.
• 54:44
  We're not qualified.
• 54:45
  The minimum of hurt training.
• 54:47
  Yeah.
• 54:48
  Yeah.
• 54:52
  Clooney's money equals doing good.
• 54:53
  No,
• 54:54
  I never said that WFP was doing good.
• 54:57
  I said they need to look in the
• 54:58
  mirror.
• 55:01
  I think he's trying to say that they
• 55:04
  have the money, so they're doing good.
• 55:05
  But no, they just have a huge bankroll.
• 55:10
  I am not saying that.
• 55:14
  And I'm not one that's like wrapped up
• 55:16
  in where the money's coming from or any
• 55:18
  of that stuff.
• 55:19
  If you followed along with this,
• 55:21
  I could care less.
• 55:22
  They have the money.
• 55:23
  They can spend it however they want.
• 55:24
  Yep.
• 55:26
  It does not matter to me where that
• 55:27
  comes from or what.
• 55:29
  how much they have.
• 55:31
  They're offering it out to these athletes.
• 55:33
  If I'm an athlete in those positions,
• 55:35
  I sign up.
• 55:36
  Unless I'm Jason Hopper or James Sprague
• 55:39
  and I want to win the CrossFit Games
• 55:40
  specifically and I want to put all my
• 55:43
  eggs in that basket,
• 55:44
  I'm signing up and getting a free year
• 55:46
  of getting to play.
• 55:48
  Because like the bottom end of the WFP
• 55:51
  contract at what,
• 55:52
  like ten thousand dollars is like what a
• 55:56
  top fifteen,
• 55:57
  almost top ten at the CrossFit Games.
• 55:59
  And you're guaranteed, let's say,
• 56:00
  three big competitions paid for
• 56:03
  opportunities for you to show up for your
• 56:05
  sponsors, possibly gain sponsorships.
• 56:07
  So for most athletes that aren't there
• 56:10
  like those.
• 56:12
  you know,
• 56:13
  athletes that are looking to win the games
• 56:15
  and make, you know,
• 56:15
  fifty thousand and above one hundred
• 56:17
  thousand, two hundred, three hundred.
• 56:20
  The WFP is a great option.
• 56:21
  Yeah.
• 56:25
  And it's very much like CrossFit says,
• 56:27
  the college guys that stay back and make
• 56:29
  the NIL money,
• 56:30
  they'll make more money than if they're a
• 56:32
  fourth round pick in the NFL.
• 56:33
  Like NIL has gotten so serious in college
• 56:38
  that you can make more money than going
• 56:40
  to the league.
• 56:41
  And if you're smart with your money and
• 56:43
  invest it properly,
• 56:44
  you can have it continue to grow and
• 56:49
  be good for life.
• 56:50
  You should be good with life with some
• 56:51
  of those millions.
• 56:56
  Vicky said,
• 56:56
  there's a difference between having money
• 56:58
  and making money.
• 56:58
  Having doesn't equal doing good to me.
• 57:03
  Well said.
• 57:05
  Philby,
• 57:05
  I can understand guaranteed money for pro
• 57:07
  cards,
• 57:08
  but for someone doing a qualifier who then
• 57:10
  has to pay for travel and accommodation,
• 57:13
  then there's the opening quarters.
• 57:14
  It's a lot.
• 57:15
  I completely agree.
• 57:17
  I'm talking about the people who got the
• 57:19
  offer of a pro card because they earned
• 57:21
  it last year.
• 57:23
  Right.
• 57:24
  I've said that.
• 57:24
  I feel like that's somewhat the downfall
• 57:26
  of this.
• 57:26
  When you say you're for the athletes...
• 57:28
  You need to be there for all the
• 57:30
  athletes, not your top twenty,
• 57:32
  not trying to pull in.
• 57:34
  I would have rather seen smaller contracts
• 57:36
  and offer out to the top forty or
• 57:38
  whoever you're inviting to this comp to
• 57:40
  pay their way to get there.
• 57:43
  Let's say you have thirty athletes compete
• 57:45
  now, pro, no challenger division,
• 57:48
  but all thirty athletes get their way at
• 57:50
  least covered.
• 57:51
  Yeah.
• 57:52
  And then there's money as well guaranteed
• 57:55
  for placing.
• 57:56
  Yeah, guaranteed money for placing.
• 57:59
  I just, I think,
• 58:01
  I feel like to get,
• 58:02
  if you want ten people to come in
• 58:03
  and buy for a spot,
• 58:05
  you need to entice them there.
• 58:07
  You need to, it's, you're, you're,
• 58:12
  you're hinging this bet on whether,
• 58:15
  whether or not, like,
• 58:16
  the programming's good enough for you.
• 58:18
  Because let's be real,
• 58:19
  most of these athletes are program
• 58:22
  dependent.
• 58:23
  So you need to get them there.
• 58:26
  You need to get them there because, like,
• 58:28
  you can't just bet on yourself.
• 58:31
  This isn't a sport where I've trained for
• 58:33
  high rocks and I know I'm going to
• 58:34
  do well.
• 58:35
  It's not that.
• 58:36
  It is so program dependent.
• 58:37
  And we saw, like,
• 58:40
  that you could maybe do that if you
• 58:41
  did the gymnastics event.
• 58:44
  Like,
• 58:44
  you knew that you were the gymnasticist
• 58:46
  person.
• 58:46
  That's the one you go to and you
• 58:47
  pay to go to.
• 58:48
  But I don't know.
• 58:49
  This is tough to entice these people to
• 58:52
  show up.
• 58:55
  Well,
• 58:55
  it's going to be tough to get fifty.
• 58:57
  I was about to say, when it's fifty,
• 58:59
  it's going to be tough.
• 58:59
  That is absurd.
• 59:03
  If you kept it to twenty-five or thirty
• 59:06
  and then paid the travel of those other
• 59:08
  five or ten athletes,
• 59:10
  then it makes sense as a competition for
• 59:12
  the pro card.
• 59:14
  But I agree with you.
• 59:16
  You're put at a disadvantage being a
• 59:18
  challenger having to do all the qualifiers
• 59:21
  and then trying to compete for this
• 59:25
  It's crazy.
• 59:27
  Cross fat asked,
• 59:28
  do we know if the withdrawals got their
• 59:29
  cash?
• 59:30
  My understanding is it was prorated
• 59:32
  depending.
• 59:33
  If you had a guaranteed amount,
• 59:35
  each appearance was a third.
• 59:38
  And so if you showed up for two
• 59:39
  of the three,
• 59:39
  you got two thirds of the money
• 59:42
  guaranteed.
• 59:44
  That's how I took it.
• 59:47
  Um,
• 59:55
  Vicky, forgot to ask yesterday,
• 59:56
  how are you feeling S?
• 59:57
  And I think that's me.
• 59:59
  I'm feeling pretty good.
• 1:00:01
  The recovery is harder than I thought it
• 1:00:03
  was going to be,
• 1:00:04
  but the results are worth every bit of
• 1:00:06
  it.
• 1:00:07
  If that makes sense.
• 1:00:10
  I can breathe deeply through my nose for
• 1:00:12
  like the first time in five years.
• 1:00:14
  It has been amazing.
• 1:00:17
  But it's like every couple of days I
• 1:00:18
  get like this drainage rush.
• 1:00:22
  And hopefully that stops at some point.
• 1:00:26
  Was it Thursday you were able to blow
• 1:00:27
  your nose?
• 1:00:28
  Or is it?
• 1:00:30
  It's tomorrow.
• 1:00:31
  This Thursday.
• 1:00:33
  Yeah.
• 1:00:34
  I can lightly blow my nose this week.
• 1:00:36
  Right.
• 1:00:37
  But I can't do a hard blow.
• 1:00:38
  You have an alarm set on your phone.
• 1:00:40
  Blow your nose.
• 1:00:41
  Oh, I'm counting down the days.
• 1:00:45
  So CrossFit says, so Haley got zero money.
• 1:00:47
  That's correct.
• 1:00:50
  If, if.
• 1:00:51
  And I'm a McQuaid as well.
• 1:00:53
  Correct.
• 1:00:53
  If they did it like they said and
• 1:00:56
  prorated the money,
• 1:00:57
  zero of three would be zero percent and
• 1:01:01
  you get zero.
• 1:01:04
  But she got that Red Bull money now,
• 1:01:05
  so she probably doesn't care.
• 1:01:09
  Right.
• 1:01:10
  Talk about like hitting a home run.
• 1:01:12
  Yeah, that's awesome.
• 1:01:13
  Good for her.
• 1:01:14
  If you follow global sports.
• 1:01:17
  Like Red Bull has,
• 1:01:19
  I don't give a shit money.
• 1:01:23
  And they are like their athletes are the
• 1:01:28
  best in the world in F one in
• 1:01:33
  bull riding in skiing,
• 1:01:36
  all the snowboarding sports,
• 1:01:38
  all like they have the best athletes in
• 1:01:41
  the world.
• 1:01:43
  They are crazy.
• 1:01:49
  No cocaine parties.
• 1:01:50
  Are you talking about me with my nose?
• 1:01:55
  No blow, no blow for two weeks.
• 1:02:02
  Yeah.
• 1:02:02
  That when I saw that,
• 1:02:03
  like Red Bull signed a couple other
• 1:02:05
  CrossFit athletes.
• 1:02:06
  It made me scratch my head.
• 1:02:08
  Yeah.
• 1:02:08
  Like Haley makes sense.
• 1:02:12
  Yeah.
• 1:02:12
  And her potential is there.
• 1:02:16
  Like to see her get back to that
• 1:02:17
  potential.
• 1:02:21
  um i think last thing i had is
• 1:02:24
  if you didn't see it pat velner had
• 1:02:25
  a heart ablation that hits home close for
• 1:02:29
  me because that is a piece of what
• 1:02:33
  could happen uh to me if i go
• 1:02:36
  back into afib again uh he did not
• 1:02:38
  have afib he had a atrial flutter
• 1:02:44
  which is similar but different.
• 1:02:46
  It's just a different rhythm.
• 1:02:48
  But they went in and burned off the
• 1:02:50
  piece of the heart that sends the signal
• 1:02:53
  so that it sends the right signal.
• 1:02:55
  And he said two weeks,
• 1:02:57
  he can go back to full intensity.
• 1:03:00
  Wow.
• 1:03:01
  It's pretty wild.
• 1:03:04
  That is wild.
• 1:03:10
  Um...
• 1:03:13
  CrossFit says you mean Luca, don't you?
• 1:03:15
  I don't mean Luca.
• 1:03:17
  I actually mean like the other,
• 1:03:20
  the whole group they signed seem to be
• 1:03:23
  people.
• 1:03:24
  One,
• 1:03:24
  Laura makes a lot of sense to me.
• 1:03:26
  I don't want to include her in this
• 1:03:27
  group.
• 1:03:28
  Laura makes perfect sense to me that she's
• 1:03:29
  a Red Bull athlete.
• 1:03:31
  But Noah and Yona and Luka,
• 1:03:34
  but Luka competes everywhere in Europe.
• 1:03:36
  So that's a different story too.
• 1:03:38
  He just competed at,
• 1:03:40
  what is that competition?
• 1:03:41
  What was it called?
• 1:03:43
  The Crucible.
• 1:03:45
  Yeah, a lot of great athletes there.
• 1:03:46
  There's so much money there for those
• 1:03:48
  single modality events.
• 1:03:50
  Entertaining.
• 1:03:52
  I watched a little bit of that.
• 1:03:54
  on the weekend.
• 1:03:56
  Luka makes sense because he competes so
• 1:03:57
  much in Europe.
• 1:03:58
  But Noah and Yona don't make a lot
• 1:04:00
  of sense to me.
• 1:04:02
  I think their best days as CrossFitters
• 1:04:04
  are past them.
• 1:04:06
  And that doesn't seem to be in the
• 1:04:08
  same vein as what Red Bull normally backs.
• 1:04:13
  And it's not that I don't like either
• 1:04:15
  of them.
• 1:04:15
  It just doesn't fit
• 1:04:18
  With like Maxel Staffan and the F one
• 1:04:22
  team and all of that stuff.
• 1:04:24
  Like they're about winning.
• 1:04:27
  He must,
• 1:04:28
  no one must be banking on coming to
• 1:04:30
  the masters and winning.
• 1:04:31
  And if you think about it,
• 1:04:33
  the people who aren't super familiar,
• 1:04:35
  they're going to see that this dude won.
• 1:04:39
  took first place.
• 1:04:40
  If he, if he comes and wins,
• 1:04:42
  they might, they'll just see first place.
• 1:04:44
  They're not going to really narrow that
• 1:04:46
  down and be like, well,
• 1:04:47
  he didn't win the individual CrossFit
• 1:04:50
  games.
• 1:04:50
  He only won this little bracket.
• 1:04:52
  Like it could bring enough eyes.
• 1:04:55
  Like all the games athletes that just put
• 1:04:58
  four time games athlete five times,
• 1:05:00
  but don't make it team team master.
• 1:05:05
  People don't know.
• 1:05:07
  They know what they're doing when they put
• 1:05:08
  that.
• 1:05:09
  Right.
• 1:05:11
  It helps the sponsorship, stuff like that.
• 1:05:13
  Exactly right.
• 1:05:14
  You're not going to write master team or
• 1:05:16
  master games athlete.
• 1:05:17
  You're just going to write six-time games
• 1:05:19
  athletes, seven-time, whatever, two-time.
• 1:05:22
  And then the sponsor's like, oh,
• 1:05:23
  games athlete.
• 1:05:24
  And if they don't follow the sport,
• 1:05:25
  they don't know.
• 1:05:26
  No.
• 1:05:27
  You just see a lot of followers and
• 1:05:29
  they see games.
• 1:05:30
  You see, if somebody,
• 1:05:31
  if say no comes and wins, thirty five,
• 1:05:34
  thirty nine and highlight reels get put up
• 1:05:36
  of them,
• 1:05:37
  you're going to see him working out next
• 1:05:38
  to the likes of Sam Dancer and Scott
• 1:05:41
  Pancheck.
• 1:05:41
  And you may believe that this was like
• 1:05:44
  those dudes are freaking.
• 1:05:47
  Top of the sphere,
• 1:05:48
  like most dudes want to look like them,
• 1:05:50
  so it wouldn't be a far stretch to
• 1:05:53
  think, oh, that's yep,
• 1:05:55
  that guy just won first in the world.
• 1:05:58
  So we've got to get Carolyn a Red
• 1:06:00
  Bull sponsorship before she wins the
• 1:06:02
  thirty five to thirty nine.
• 1:06:03
  So I'm hearing that would be cool.
• 1:06:10
  Last thing I want to say,
• 1:06:11
  this just came across from Adam Adam
• 1:06:13
  Schefter.
• 1:06:14
  There's been all this talk about Bad Bunny
• 1:06:16
  and the halftime show.
• 1:06:19
  I've said it a million times.
• 1:06:20
  They're not marketing for me.
• 1:06:22
  I am not.
• 1:06:22
  They are not looking for the fifty five
• 1:06:24
  year old white guy watching the Super Bowl
• 1:06:26
  for Bad Bunny.
• 1:06:28
  The ratings for his halftime show,
• 1:06:30
  a hundred and twenty eight point two
• 1:06:32
  million viewers.
• 1:06:34
  I thought it was one hundred thirty five
• 1:06:35
  million last I had seen.
• 1:06:37
  This just came across from from NBC
• 1:06:40
  announced and Adam Schefter,
• 1:06:42
  the ESPN reporter, is reporting it.
• 1:06:45
  The official number is one hundred and
• 1:06:46
  twenty eight point two million viewers.
• 1:06:49
  That is incorrect.
• 1:06:50
  That is an insane number.
• 1:06:52
  That is why he did the halftime show.
• 1:06:55
  So there are people globally that tuned
• 1:06:58
  into the Super Bowl.
• 1:06:59
  One hundred fifty seven countries tune
• 1:07:01
  into the Super Bowl.
• 1:07:03
  What what what was the numbers on the
• 1:07:07
  Super Bowl last year?
• 1:07:10
  This set a record,
• 1:07:11
  so I don't know what the number was.
• 1:07:12
  I don't have a record for halftime
• 1:07:15
  viewership.
• 1:07:16
  Yeah.
• 1:07:16
  Halftime viewership.
• 1:07:20
  I mean,
• 1:07:20
  did this Super Bowl set a record for
• 1:07:23
  viewership?
• 1:07:23
  The thing is that number means nothing to
• 1:07:25
  me.
• 1:07:25
  If one hundred and thirty five million
• 1:07:27
  people were watching the Super Bowl and it
• 1:07:28
  stayed on,
• 1:07:29
  that doesn't that that doesn't mean
• 1:07:32
  anything to me.
• 1:07:33
  Now,
• 1:07:34
  I will tell you that I I will
• 1:07:36
  I would bet my paycheck that this Super
• 1:07:39
  Bowl did not outperform last year's Super
• 1:07:41
  Bowl.
• 1:07:41
  No,
• 1:07:42
  especially with the teams that were in.
• 1:07:44
  Some people tune in just for the halftime
• 1:07:46
  show.
• 1:07:48
  The Eagles and Chiefs.
• 1:07:50
  We're going to outdraw the Seahawks and
• 1:07:52
  the Patriots.
• 1:07:53
  So that's what they need to say.
• 1:07:54
  A hundred and twenty million people were
• 1:07:56
  tuning in live for the game and it
• 1:07:58
  jumped to one hundred and twenty eight and
• 1:08:01
  then dropped back down.
• 1:08:02
  They need to say that and they need
• 1:08:03
  to say last year the Super Bowl only
• 1:08:06
  had one hundred and twenty million people
• 1:08:08
  watching and their halftime show dropped
• 1:08:10
  to one hundred.
• 1:08:11
  Like they need to be very clear about
• 1:08:13
  those numbers.
• 1:08:15
  Well, I'm sure they're all out there.
• 1:08:16
  This is just what was reported on a
• 1:08:18
  text two line thing.
• 1:08:22
  Yeah.
• 1:08:23
  Yeah.
• 1:08:23
  Most of the time,
• 1:08:24
  the halftime show gets more viewerships
• 1:08:27
  because you have people go for the
• 1:08:28
  artists.
• 1:08:29
  Like, well,
• 1:08:30
  like people that don't watch football,
• 1:08:31
  well,
• 1:08:32
  like look forward to the halftime show to
• 1:08:34
  watch their favorite artists perform,
• 1:08:37
  whether it's Rihanna, who was last year,
• 1:08:40
  Kendrick, anyone.
• 1:08:45
  But anyway, I enjoyed it.
• 1:08:49
  I did too.
• 1:08:49
  I thought it was like, I, to me,
• 1:08:51
  I really liked the movie in the Heights
• 1:08:54
  and it gave me that same vibe.
• 1:08:58
  I didn't understand anything,
• 1:08:59
  but that's fine.
• 1:09:00
  I got a D in high school Spanish
• 1:09:02
  and it didn't stick.
• 1:09:03
  So there it is.
• 1:09:08
  Taylor Swift wasn't there.
• 1:09:09
  Of course, viewership was down.
• 1:09:13
  CrossFat, with all the knowledge,
• 1:09:16
  Kendrick Lamar's performance to one
• 1:09:18
  hundred thirty three point five million,
• 1:09:20
  marking the highest in history,
• 1:09:21
  breaking records by Usher.
• 1:09:23
  One twenty three.
• 1:09:24
  Rihanna.
• 1:09:25
  One twenty one.
• 1:09:27
  And I had read that this one was
• 1:09:28
  one thirty five.
• 1:09:31
  And then broke that Kendrick one.
• 1:09:35
  Across it's a bunny's halftime numbers
• 1:09:36
  aren't tallied yet.
• 1:09:39
  This just came literally as we were
• 1:09:41
  talking about.
• 1:09:43
  whatever Pat Vellner came across from
• 1:09:46
  Schefter that NBC made the announcement.
• 1:09:48
  So I think it just came out.
• 1:09:53
  So anyway, there it is with that.
• 1:09:59
  Hope everybody had a good time tonight.
• 1:10:01
  We'll be back to our regularly scheduled
• 1:10:02
  program next week.
• 1:10:04
  If you entered the drawing for the open
• 1:10:07
  registration,
• 1:10:08
  we're going to draw that on Sunday night.
• 1:10:11
  There haven't been a lot of comments
• 1:10:13
  saying I'm in on the YouTube channel to
• 1:10:16
  get into the drawing.
• 1:10:18
  Everyone's signed up.
• 1:10:19
  That's why.
• 1:10:22
  Well,
• 1:10:22
  we need to get more than a hundred
• 1:10:23
  thousand.
• 1:10:24
  Yes.
• 1:10:25
  We need to get that payday for Carolyn
• 1:10:27
  at the games up.
• 1:10:28
  So.
• 1:10:30
  With that, go to the comments,
• 1:10:34
  type in I'm in,
• 1:10:35
  and you'll go in the drawing this Sunday
• 1:10:37
  night for your open registration to be
• 1:10:40
  paid for.
• 1:10:42
  I have a code.
• 1:10:43
  I'll send it to you.
• 1:10:44
  You can just enter that code.
• 1:10:45
  It'll take care of your registration.
• 1:10:47
  With that, leave that comment,
• 1:10:49
  not in the chat, in the comments.
• 1:10:53
  And then...
• 1:10:56
  Yes, CrossFit.
• 1:10:58
  Schefter breaking NHL trades was weird.
• 1:11:00
  It was.
• 1:11:01
  He was breaking NHL trades and NBA trades
• 1:11:05
  this week.
• 1:11:06
  It was bizarre.
• 1:11:08
  With that,
• 1:11:09
  hope everybody has a great rest of your
• 1:11:10
  week.
• 1:11:11
  We'll see you Sunday night,
• 1:11:12
  and I'll be back here tomorrow for lunch
• 1:11:14
  with the Clydesdale.
• 1:11:15
  Bye, guys.